#Americans #XXCentury #1993 #ThePleasuresOfTheDamned
Abe Mortenson was had enough to be around but he was just a fool. You can forgive a fool because he only runs in one direction and doesn’t deceive anybody. It’s the deceivers who make y...
not much chance, completely cut loose from purpose, he was a young man riding a bus
the balance is preserved by the sn… the Santa Monica cliffs; the luck is in walking down Wester… and having the girls in a massage parlor holler at you, “Hello, Swe…
That night I gave another bad reading. I didn’t care. They didn’t care. If John Cage could get one thousand dollars for eating an apple, I’d accept $500 plus air fare for being a lemon....
at high noon at a small college near the beach sober the sweat running down my arms a spot of sweat on the table
We came in low over Kansas City, the pilot said the temperature was 20 degrees, and there I was in my thin California sports coat and shirt, lightweight pants, summer stockings, and hol...
he’s a runt he snarls and scratches chases cars groans in his sleep and has a perfect star above each…
there waas a rock-and-mud slide on the Pacific Coast Highway and… detour and they directed us up int… and traffic was slow and it was ho… we were lost.
they took my man off the street the other day he wore an L.A. Rams sweatshirt w… the sleeves cut off
the cockroach crouched against the tile while I was pissing and as I turned my head he hauled his butt
My mother went to her low-paying job each morning and my father, who didn’t have a job, left each morning too. Although most of the neighbors were unemployed he didn’t want them to thin...
I got back, made love to Lydia several times, got in a fight with her, and left L. A. International late one morning to give a reading in Arkansas. I was lucky enough to have a seat by ...
never even in calmer times have I ever dreamed of bicycling through that
A sound awakened me. It was not quite daylight. Cecelia was moving around getting dressed. I looked at my watch. “I want to watch the sun come up. I love sunrises!” “I haven’t been able...
the higher you climb the greater the pressure. those who manage to endure learn